Grants and Payments

Available starting April 2025: Payment for comprehensive care for rural and mid-sized communities

As communicated through an FPSC Special Update on October 2, 2024, we are introducing a new physician payment for comprehensive care that focuses on rural and mid-sized communities. Based on physician feedback, the purpose of this payment is to encourage a broad scope of family practice, which is essential in rural and mid-sized communities. It also aims to support groups of family physicians (FPs) working together to meet community needs, to acknowledge the significant value and additional complexity of providing clinic-based care plus acute care, and to help support access to care in rural and mid-sized communities.  
 
The payment, which is expected to be introduced in April 2025, will be available to eligible physicians regardless of their payment model. Eligible physicians will receive up to $10,000 annually, plus the Rural Retention Program premium, for each of the following service areas for which they provide care:

• Emergency
• Assigned inpatient
• Unassigned inpatient
• Facility-based pregnancy and newborn
• Surgery and/or surgical assists
• Anesthesia

Look for more information as details are confirmed.

Community Longitudinal Family Physician (CLFP) Payment

The CLFP Payment recognizes community-based family physicians who care for a panel of patients for providing long-term, relationship-based care.

There are changes coming to the process for claiming the CLFP Payment in 2025. Please click here to learn more. 

Team-Based Care Grant

Application deadline: Ongoing

The new Team-Based Care Grant provides $15,000 to eligible family practices that have onboarded interprofessional team members. The grant will help address the costs of recruiting and onboarding into a practice, which physicians have identified as a barrier to creating team-based care practices.

Panel Management Bonus Payment

Application deadline: Ongoing

In addition to sessional dollars for time spent completing the phases of panel management, FPSC offers a $3,000 bonus payment once all three phases are complete. Compensation is designed to support community longitudinal family practice doctors and their teams in using their EMR (electronic medical record) systems to identify and respond to their patients' chronic and preventative care needs.

Do I quality for the panel management payment?

To be eligible for the bonus payment, you must:

• Be a community longitudinal family physician practicing in British Columbia

• Intend to remain the Most Responsible Physician/Provider (MRP) or your patient panel for at least the next 12 months.

• Be using an EMR (electronic medical record) system to document and manage patient medical information (including medical history), tests, diagnosis, and treatments) in the clinc where you are undertaking panel management.

• Commit to completing phase one, two, and three of panel management within the next 12 months.

Each eligible family doctor can claim the bonus payment once. For questions about eligibility or payments, contact panel.incentive@doctorsofbc.ca.

HDC Discover Payment

Application deadline was: March 31, 2022

Family doctors who have completed panel management are eligible for a new $1,000 FPSC payment if they enrol in HDC Discover and complete the orientation in the web based application. The payment supports family doctors to utilize the application to make data-informed quality improvements in their practices.

Group Family Practice Development Grant

Application deadline: funding is now fully committed and as such no new applications are being accepted at this time. 

The FPSC has introduced a new grant to help cover expenses incurred when family doctors join or form a new or expanded group practice. The Group Family Practice Development Grant, which provides up to $30,000 per eligible physician, addresses feedback from family doctors that significant expenditures of closing and/or merging offices are holding them back from forming or consolidating group practices.

BC Care Bundle Payment

Application deadline was: May 31, 2021

A FPSC one-time payment with a minimum of $1000 that supported eligible family doctors who took on the additional work of identifying and treating patients with care needs noted in the Ministry of Health’s BC Care Bundle for Supporting High Risk Patients Through COVID-19 Pandemic and Influenza Season.